Use of nutritional supplements and ergogenic aids in professional tennis players
| Autor: | Juan F. Ortega, Álvaro López-Samanes, Jesús G. Pallarés, Mark S. Kovacs, Ricardo Mora-Rodriguez, Victor Moreno-Pérez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Adult
Male 0301 basic medicine medicine.medical_specialty Medicine (miscellaneous) Athletic Performance Creatine Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences chemistry.chemical_compound 0302 clinical medicine Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Prevalence Humans Medicine 030109 nutrition & dietetics Nutrition and Dietetics biology business.industry Athletes 030229 sport sciences biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Nutritionist chemistry Tennis Dietary Supplements Physical therapy Central Nervous System Stimulants Female business human activities |
| Zdroj: | Nutrición Hospitalaria. |
| ISSN: | 1699-5198 0212-1611 |
| DOI: | 10.20960/nh.1404 |
| Popis: | Nutritional supplements and ergogenic aids (NSEA) are used between training/matches with the goal of enhancing tennis performance. Scientific literature about prevalence and use of NSEA in professional tennis players is scarce.The aim of the study was to describe the NSEA used by professional tennis players during a season.Using a validated self-administered questionnaire, 62 professional male and 9 professional female tennis players (11% in their gender specific top 100 tennis world ranking (i.e.,ATP/WTA)) registered all the used NSEA.Eighty-one percent of the participants declared taking at least one NSEA. Strength and conditioning trainers (SC) and tennis coaches were the professionals who recommended most of the NSEA in the players outside the TOP-100 (OT100; 50.7% and 39.1%, respectively). However, sports nutritionist were the principal advisors in the top-100 tennis players (T100; 62.5%). Sports drinks were the NSEA most commonly used by all participants (81.7%). T100 participants used caffeine (p = 0.042), creatine (p = 0.001), iron (p = 0.013) and CHO-protein mix (p = 0.033) significantly more frequently that OT100 players.There is a high prevalence of NSEA use among professional tennis players independently of their tennis ranking position. However, T100 tennis player have an increased use of certain substances such us caffeine, creatine, iron and CHO-Protein mix. For the rest of the studied NSEA the use was similar between T100 and OT100 players. It is possible that the differences in NSEA use between groups could be related to the different professionals on charge of nutritional advice in T100 vs OT100. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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